Word: backwardation
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...faces east. And he is much easier to lift to his feet if he faces east. Another useful tip: some drunks only fight facing eastward. Volf advice: "The fight may be avoided if the opponent will cause the intoxicant to face westward. This impels the intoxicant to fall backward...
...hardheaded, hard-working Sir Ardeshir Dalal, 60, of Bombay's famed House of Tata, to a seat on his Executive Council and the job of postwar industrial planning. Britain had smiled on the ambitious Bombay 15-Year Plan, a proposal to spend $30,000,000,000 in modernizing backward India...
...teacher comments often on his excellent foundation. Anne is in 4th. . . . All books had to be censored . . . [one] told of little Japanese children pointing at Americans and saying 'Look at their big noses. . . .' The Japanese were incensed, [said] Japan was not such a backward nation. . . . [When we sailed] we left everything there for the children in camp...
...voice and Churchill's backing to prove that France was still a power. So single was his purpose, so passionate his belief in his mission and in himself that he occasionally confused their identities. Once when Churchill pressed hard for some adjustment which struck De Gaulle as a backward step, he drew himself to his full, unshapely height: "Mr. Prime Minister, now that at last you have Joan of Arc on your side, you are still determined to burn her." As time went on, Churchill's patience with his solemn, intransigent protege wore thinner and thinner...
...experts also agreed to develop oil resources with "due regard" to the economic welfare of the producing countries. This simply meant that, in the setting of world quotas, backward nations whose chief revenue is derived from oil would be guaranteed shares large enough to keep their economies healthy...